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Monday, March 26, 2012
اخبار وتقارير: %11 من الإسر العراقية تعيلها نساء
أعلنت وزارة التخطيط، أمس الثلاثاء، عن نتائج مسح أجرته لأوضاع المرأة العراقية مؤخراً، وقال المتحدث الرسمي بأسم وزارة التخطيط عبدالزهرة الهنداوي لـ(آكانيوز)،
"The ministry of planning has conducted a survey involving a sample of about 65 thousand people recently," pointing out that "the survey showed that the proportion of families headed by women in Iraq reached 11% and the percentage of married women reached 62% among them 5% were married under the age of 15 years and 22% were married under the age of 18 years. "He Hindawi that "most women under the age of 20 years would prefer marriage to continuing with
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Iraqi Women's Activist Rebuffs US Claims of a Freer Iraq: "This Is Not a Democratic Country"
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Friday, April 3, 2009
ليكن 20 آذار يوم الشهيدة العراقية يوم عبير ومها
كما اعتادت أدبيات سياسية واقتصادية على التمييز بين مجتمعين , مجتمع متخلف , ومجتمع متقدم . وفي الأدبيات التي تعنى بقضايا المرأة يتم تبني معادلة تقول أن المرأة تعكس صورة مجتمعها .
إذن نستطيع استعارة هذه القاعدة لنقول أن وآد المرأة في مجتمع
الجاهلية يعكس صورة مختلة أو مريضة لهذا المجتمع , كما أن سبي
المرأة وتحويلها إلى جارية يعكس صورة مختلة أو مريضة للمجتمع
الذي يمارس فعل السبي تعبيرا عن السطوة والهيمنة والانتصار .
ربما علينا أن نعيد تعريف الهشاشة ووسم المرأة بها . هل لأن الرجال هم الذين يقودون " الغزو والسبي " ولأن النساء هن اللواتي يخضعن للسبي ؟ ؟ وهل لأن المرأة الواقع عليها فعل السبي تعد أكثر هشاشة ؟ ؟
في أخلاقيات الغزو والاستعمار قديما وحديثا يتعرض المجتمع كله للعدوان والانتهاك .
ومن علامات الغزو : السرقة , النهب , القتل العشوائي , التدمير , الأسر , التعذيب , انتهاك ثوابت المجتمع وأخلاقياته , الاستخفاف بقيمه , التحكم بإرادته , مصادرة وعيه ,الهيمنة على مصيره , ومقدراته ومستقبله , السعي لإلغائه . لا جديد في توصيف أخلاقيات الغزو , ولسنا بحاجة إلى إعادة توصيفه إلا بالقدر الذي تتطلبه ملفات الغزاة عبر التاريخ في سياق الحاجة إلى تحديث المعلومات المرصودة تراكميا .
منذ غزوات الجاهلية إلى غزو العراق يوم 19 – 20 آذار – 2003 فإن الغازي هو نفسه بالمعنى التاريخي . والأطماع الاقتصادية والتوسعية تقف وراء هجمات الغزاة والمحتلين , وترتبط الأطماع بثروات البلدان والأقاليم التي تثير جشع الغزاة , كما أن الموقع الجغرافي يلعب دورا في أسباب كثيرة للغزو . أما المجتمع الذي يتكون من نسائه ورجاله فإنه تاريخيا يقف عائقا في طريق الغزاة , إذ ثمة سمة أخلاقية تدفعه لأن ينتج المقاومة سلاحا يدافع بها عن أرضه ووجوده ضد الغزاة .
المجتمع قبل المرأة :
في واقعة الغزو فأن المجتمع هو الذي يتعرض للعدوان والانتهاك لكسر شوكة مقاومته , وفي واقعة المقاومة فإن المجتمع هو الذي يندفع بابتكار وسائله لكسر شوكة الغازي وتحطيم إرادته . وإذا ما خضع المجتمع فإنه صورة لخنوع طرفي المعادلة التي تشكله وتكونه , وإذا ما انتصر المجتمع فإنه صورة لانتصار طرفي المعادلة التي تشكله وتكونه . بهذا المعنى فإن المجتمع هو المستهدف بالغزو قبل المرأة , وإن المجتمع هو موضوع الانتصار قبل الرجل .
فلماذا كانت الأنثى – إذن – هدف الوأد في مجتمع الجاهلية , ولماذا كانت عبير ومها " كنموذجين " هدف الوأد في " مجتمع الاحتلال " إن صح التعبير ؟ ! .
الإرادة بمعنى الحرية :
الغزاة يستهدفون إرادة المجتمع , بانتهاكهم لكرامة الرجال والنساء. أليس استعباد البشر صناعة استعمارية ؟ وأليست المتاجرة بالرقيق الأبيض إحدى نتاجات مجتمع " التنافس الرأسمالي " وقوانين اقتصاد السوق ؟
وأليست فضائح " أبو غريب " صورة للغازي , ألم يكن عدد المنتهكين من الرجال أكبر من عدد المنتهكات من النساء ؟ .
إن الغزاة " مجندرين " في عدوانهم أن صح التعبير ولكن لماذا عبير ومها ؟ .
إن للأنثى خاصية الإنجاب أي خاصية إدامة المجتمع بالنسل البشري , فهي الحاضن له , هي الأرض , وهي البيئة الصحية لنموه . فتكسب الأنثى بهذه الخاصية صلابة مميزة عن الذكر حسم أمرها العلم , وأثبتها في أكثر من مجال .
وبسبب هذه الخاصية فإن الأنثى كانت موضوع الوأد , نعم لم تكن مذنبة , فالمذنب هو المجتمع , ويتمثل ذنب المجتمع بضعفه في الدفاع عن ذاته , وبشعوره العالي بهشاشته , وبالتالي بالخشية المستمرة من الهزيمة , فتمسي " الحرة " بيد الغازي جارية , أما لماذا لا يخشى المجتمع على الذكر , هل لأنه المحارب , فحتى المحارب يؤسر ويسبى ويستعبد , غير أن الذكر لا يملك خاصية احتضان النسل وولادته .
إن خوف المجتمع " الضعيف " على ضياع نسله إذا ما تعرضت النساء للسبي , يدفعه لوأد الحرة , الوأد سلاح من نوع آخر للانتحار الذاتي, يشبه انتحار الساموراي النبيل .
إن المجتمع الهش ينتج معادلات أخلاقية هشة وقلقة , ويضع المرأة في خانة الهشاشة , للتغطية على هشاشته إذا ما عجز عن إنتاج أوالياته ووسائله للدفاع عن نفسه , واستعادة تماسكه لإعادة إنتاج ذاته الحرة .
يوم عبير ومها :
رغم اختلاف جنسية المنتهكين في حادثي اغتصاب عبير ومها إذ أن الطفلة عبير ( 14 عاما ) تعرضت للانتهاك والقتل في المحمودية , في يوم 12 آذار من عام 2006 من قبل جنود الاحتلال , بينما تعرضت الطفلة مها ( 15 عاما ) للانتهاك من قبل مليشيات حمتها قوات الداخلية وتسترت عليها في ديالى في تشرين من عام 2006 , رغم الاختلاف بين جنسية الفاعلين , فإن الدالة واحدة تلك التي تعكس هشاشة المجتمع الذي أنتج المغتصبين القتلة , سواء كان المجتمع الأمريكي انعكاسا لأكثر دولة " متطورة في العالم " أم كان مجتمع المليشيات " انعكاسا " للإقطاعية السياسية التي جاءت وتعاملت مع الاحتلال كمكون من مكوناته .
إن عبير ومها صورتان لحرية المجتمع المراد وأده وكسر إرادته في الصمود والبقاء والدفاع من اجل الوجود والأرض , إلا أن واقعة الوأد لم يمارسها المجتمع هذه المرة وأدا للذات المهزومة ( انتحارا ) للتعبير عن الهزيمة ورفضها في الآن نفسه . إنما مارسها الغازي وعميله وكأنهما يعبران عن نفس قلقة إزاء استشعار الهزيمة أمام فعل المقاومة الذي أنتجه المجتمع ليعبر عن ذات معافاة حرة وإرادة واثقة ووعي بالمسؤولية نحو المستقبل والمصير .
إن عبير ومها نموذجان لشهيدات الحرية . . . إنهما قد جسدتا قلق الغازي وقلق أعوانه , أن المواجهة اخطر من توقعهما , والدافعية عند مجتمع المقاومة تملك مقومات انتصارها , إنها ترتبط بضرورة النصر وحتميته . . . من اجل الحفاظ على الوجود واستمراره , فسلاح الاغتصاب يعكس ضعف العدو وهشاشة دوافعه , والضحية تتحول هنا إلى مضمون الحرية التي مدت المجتمع العراقي مرة أخرى بأسباب استمرار المقاومة , لذا أن اعتماد يوم 20 آذار يوما للشهيدة العراقية يعكس وعي مجتمعنا بجدوى الدفاع عن الحرية عن عبير ومها وكل شهيدات الحرية في العراق . إننا مجتمع غادر جاهلية القبيلة ومفهوم الوأد . بينما تلبس هذا المفهوم مجتمع الغازي الذي اعترف بهزيمته . . واعترف بعاره .
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يوم (المرأة العراقية): لئلا ننسى جرائم الاحتلال - حقائق خافية عن وحشية الانتهاكات بحقها والاحتلال يتحدث عن وجود مئات الشرائط والصور المقززة في السجون
الى تخصيص يوم للمرأة العراقية تحت شعار 'لكي لا ننسى'. مع الاقرار بالفارق ما بين عدم النسيان وعدم الغفران. اذ يهدف الاول الى التذكير لئلا تتكرر الجرائم ولكي لا ندور في حلقة العنف ذاتها، بينما يهدف الثاني الى تبني نزعة الانتقام وممارستها بقلوب عمياء كما يفعل الذين عادوا مع المحتل
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Iraq’s War Widows Face Dire Need With Little Aid
NewYork Times
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Published: February 22, 2009
BAGHDAD — Her twin sisters were killed trying to flee Falluja in 2004. Then her husband was killed by a car bomb in Baghdad just after she had become pregnant. When her own twins were 5 months old, one was killed by an explosive planted in a Baghdad market.
Johan Spanner for The New York Times
Ruqiyah Abdelaziz, 31, lost her husband to the war, and lives in a trailer park for war widows in Baghdad with her three children. More Photos »
Now, Nacham Jaleel Kadim, 23, lives with her remaining daughter in a trailer park for war widows and their families in one of the poorest parts of Iraq’s capital.
That makes her one of the lucky ones. The trailer park, called Al Waffa, or “Park of the Grateful,” is among the few aid programs available for Iraq’s estimated 740,000 widows. It houses 750 people.
As the number of widows has swelled during six years of war, their presence on city streets begging for food or as potential recruits by insurgents has become a vexing symbol of the breakdown of Iraqi self-sufficiency.
Women who lost their husbands had once been looked after by an extended support system of family, neighbors and mosques.
But as the war has ground on, government and social service organizations say the women’s needs have come to exceed available help, posing a threat to the stability of the country’s tenuous social structures.
With the economy limping along, dependent almost entirely on the price of crude oil, and the government preoccupied with rebuilding and quelling sectarian violence, officials acknowledge that little is likely to change soon.
“We can’t help everybody,” said Leila Kadim, a managing director in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. “There are too many.”
Among Iraqi women aged 15 to 80, 1 in 11 are estimated to be widows, though officials admit that figure is hardly more than a guess, given the continuing violence and the displacement of millions of people.
A United Nations report estimated that during the height of sectarian violence here in 2006, 90 to 100 women were widowed each day.
In large cities like Baghdad, the presence of war widows is difficult to ignore. Cloaked in black abayas, they wade through columns of cars idling at security checkpoints, asking for money or food. They wait in line outside mosques for free blankets, or sift through mounds of garbage piled along the street. Some live with their children in public parks or inside gas station restrooms.
Officials at social service agencies tell of widows coerced into “temporary marriages” — relationships sanctioned by Shiite tradition, often based on sex, which can last from an hour to years — to get financial help from government, religious or tribal leaders.
Other war widows have become prostitutes, and some have joined the insurgency in exchange for steady pay. The Iraqi military estimates that the number of widows who have become suicide bombers may be in the dozens.
In the past several weeks, even as the government has formed commissions to study the problem, it has begun a campaign to arrest beggars and the homeless, including war widows.
The issue has burst into public view in some unusual ways recently. When an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush in December, he shouted that he was doing so on behalf of the war’s widows and orphans. During the campaign for last month’s provincial elections, political rallies featured heart-rending songs of the suffering of widows.
Those sentiments, though, have yet to translate into political action.
Efforts to increase the government stipend for widows — currently about $50 a month and an additional $12 per child — have stalled. By comparison, the price of a five-liter container of gasoline, used for cars as well as home generators, is about $4.
Still, only about 120,000 widows — roughly one in six — receive any state aid, according to government figures. Widows and their advocates say that to receive benefits they must either have political connections or agree to temporary marriages with the powerful men who control the distribution of government funds.
“It is blackmail,” said Samira al-Mosawi, chairwoman of the women’s affairs committee in Parliament. “We have no law to treat this point. Widows don’t need temporary support, but a permanent solution.”
The latest plan, proposed by Mazin al-Shihan, director of the Baghdad Displacement Committee, a city agency, is to pay men to marry widows. “There is no serious effort by the national government to fix this problem, so I presented my own program,” he said.
When asked why the money should not go directly to the women, Mr. Shihan laughed.
“If we give the money to the widows, they will spend it unwisely because they are uneducated and they don’t know about budgeting,” he said. “But if we find her a husband, there will be a person in charge of her and her children for the rest of their lives. This is according to our tradition and our laws.”
Abdulalah F. Alafar, who runs the Maryam Establishment for Children charity in Baghdad, said he had become so frustrated by the lack of government support that he had begun to turn away war widows. He said he planned to close his organization entirely this month.
“If the situation progresses, we will be just like India,” he said. Questioning the government’s priorities, he added, “They are busy building public fountains when we don’t have water in the sink.”
The trailer park, in Baghdad’s Al Shaab district, opened four months ago. Its 150 identical aluminum trailers sit in neat rows amid a vast field of puddles, their white exteriors already stained tan by blowing sand.
A short walk down a muddy path from Ms. Kadim’s trailer, Ahmed Hassan Sharmal, 58, and his extended family of 30 are moving into trailer numbers 39 and 40. Three of his daughters-in-law are widows. Fatherless children seem to fill every bit of the trailers’ available space, playing and giggling while their mothers wonder where everyone will sleep.
Mr. Sharmal, a Shiite, lost three sons to sectarian violence in Diyala Province, which was a center of the Sunni insurgency, during a 10-month period in 2006.
One son, a doctor, was killed in a parking garage as he walked to his car. A second died after gunmen sprayed bullets across a field of soccer players. The third, a police officer, was shot in the back of the head while on his way to work.
Jinan, 25, had been married to the doctor. She has no money and little freedom. One of her brothers-in-law, an unemployed former police officer, said he planned to marry her, a match arranged by her in-laws. As he spoke, her 4-year-old son squirmed in her mother-in-law’s lap.
Soon, Jinan will no longer be a widow, but she refuses to look at the man chosen to be her husband. As she hangs her head as if to cry, the conversation continues without her.
Anwar J. Ali and Suadad al-Salhy contributed reporting.
Friday, January 2, 2009
IRAQ: Warning over plight of Iraqi widows
BAGHDAD, 1 January 2009 (IRIN) - A women’s rights activist and a Baghdad government official agree that the government needs to take action to help the huge number of widows in Iraq - but they disagree on how to proceed. “Iraqi widows, especially internally displaced widows in camps, are having a tough time. Most have more than one child and are finding it very hard to feed them,” said Mazin al-Shihan, head of Baghdad’s Displacement Committee. “We have reports that some… are being harassed and blackmailed by government officials… More attention must be focused on this segment of the Iraqi people before it is too late,” al-Shihan told IRIN. Citing figures and estimates from government bodies and NGOs, al-Shihan said Iraq had about one million widows, including those whose husbands had died of natural causes, but a further breakdown was not available. “Such vast numbers of widows could tax any society,” he said, expressing the fear that unless something is done, some of these widows or their children could drift into crime or join the insurgency. Al-Shihan said his committee was drawing up a plan to encourage Iraqi men who lacked the necessary funds for marriage - to apply for government funding if they wanted to marry a widow. “In this project, we propose offering 10 million Iraqi dinars [about US$8,500] to men in their late 30s or 40s who can’t get married due to soaring prices, if they marry a widow,” he said. Project idea rejected Women’s activist Hanaa Adwar, who heads al-Amal, a Baghdad-based NGO, rejected the project out of hand, saying it smacked of “cruelty as the widow must get married to another man to get the government help”. “What we need is to rehabilitate this segment [of the population] to be independent and productive elements of society - getting them to be more self-reliant in terms of feeding their children. The government should ensure there are adequate social and health programmes [for the widows],” she said. “Their dignity is violated when they have to stand in long queues to get small sums of government aid which will last for a few days, or when they have to depend solely on their extended families,” she said. Social welfare programme After the US-led invasion in 2003, an Iraqi social welfare programme was created. It provides widows, divorced women, orphans, disabled people and the unemployed with a monthly allowance of 50,000-75,000 Iraqi dinars (US$50-70). However, many aid experts say the money is insufficient. Umm Amina, a 34-year-old mother of two in northern Baghdad, lost her husband in a mortar attack in one of Baghdad’s markets in August 2007. She lives with her two young daughters in a room in the house she and her husband used to share with her brother-in-law and his family. She has applied unsuccessfully for several jobs in government offices, and thought about working as a cleaner even though she has good educational qualifications. She said the government welfare assistance only lasted “a few days”. sm/ar/cb
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Samarra Minrate built in 852 AD
Building of 1 500 massive police station !
While the point itself may not have more than Abbasid houses under the ground, it is adjacent to the palace of Sur Isa, the remains of which can be seen in the photo. While the initial construction might or might not touch the palace, accompanying activities will certainly spread over it.Sur Isa can be identified with the palace of al-Burj, built by the
Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil, probably in 852-3 (Northedge, Historical Topography of Samarra, pp 125-127, 240). The palace is said to have cost 33 million dirhams, and was luxurious. Details are given by al-Shabushti, Kitab al-Diyarat.
Samarra was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO at the end of June. The barracks could easily have been built elsewhere, off the archaeological site.--
Alastair Northedge Professeur d'Art et d'Archeologie Islamiques UFR d'Art et d'Archeologie
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